Bust-pad



V(No Model.)

BUST PAD.

Patented Feb; 1, 1.898.

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. STATES PATENT FEICE.

BUST-PAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 598,378, dated February 1, 1898.

Application filed August Z3, 1897.

To all whom, t may concern:

Beit known that I, FLORENCE M. LAKE, of New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Bust-Pads; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanyingdrawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

Figure l, a View in front elevation of bustpads made in accordance with my invention; Fig. 2, a broken view, in inside elevation, of one of the pads with its unattached edges spread apart preparatory to filling it; Fig. 3, a view of one of the pads in vertical section on the line a b of Fig. l, showing the pad and tab as conformed to the shape of the wearer.

My invention relates to an improved bustpad, the object being to provide a simple, cool, attractive, convenient, and effective device constructed with particular reference to simplicity of application and ease of adjustment.

With these ends in view my invention consists in a bust-pad having certain details of construction, as will be hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claim.

In carryingr out my invention I employ for Y each pad a long tapering tab A, which may be made from a single thickness of muslin or any other desired material and which may have its edges hemmed or otherwise finished, or it may be made double. This tab, however made, is attached at its wide upper end to the lower edge of the pad proper, which is horizontally arranged at the upper end of the said tab and which may be of any approved construction, but which is preferably composed of a substantially fiat back C and a soft fulled front B, by preference composed of muslin or some other light and dressy material. The edges of the said back C and'front B of the padare permanently fastened together, except at one end, which is not so secured, for the purpose of forming an opening D, through which the iillin g is introduced and removed.

lThe filling E may be of any approved material, such as cotton or curled hair. After the pad has been stuffed the opening D is of course closed by tacking the edges together. As herein shown the inner and top Serial No. 649,155. (No model.)

. tabs are placed under the corset, which,when

laced up, places the tabs under so much fric- `tional restraint that they will hold the pads firmly in position, and also in any desired vertical arrangement. Thus the pads may be lifted after the corset is laced by drawing them upward, or they may be pulled down into the desired position by catching hold of the extreme lower ends of the tabs at a point under the front of the corset.

My improved bust-pad will be found to be extremely convenient in use and desirable in effect, because it is secured in place without the use of pins or lacings of any description and because it may be adjusted after its application.

I am aware that a vertically adjustable bust-pad tapering in form at its lower end and adapted to be held in place by the friction imposed upon its lower end by the corset of the wearer is old. I amalso aware that it is old to form a bust-pad with an opening through which filling maybe introduced and removed. I do not, therefore, claim either of these constructions broadly.

Having fullyr described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A bust-pad consisting of a horizontally-arranged pad proper, comprising a flat or substantially flat cloth back and a fulled front of soft material, the edges of the said back and front being connected together except at one end of vthe pad where they are left 1unconnected to form an opening for the introduction and removal of the filling, and the said bust-pad also comprising a long tapering retaining-tab made of soft cloth and connected with the lower edge of the horizontallyarranged pad proper andadapted to be placed under frictional restraint for holding 'the same in any desired position of adjustment by means of the -corset under which the pad is placed.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FLORENCE M. LAKE.

Witnesses:

FRED. C. EARLE, GEORGE D. SEYMOUR.

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